21.11.2014 - 09:01 [ Techdirt ]

White House Apparently Doing Everything To Stop Release Of CIA Torture Report

On Tuesday evening, Senator Dianne Feinstein had told reporters that the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House were finally close to an agreement to finalize the release of the declassified executive summary of the CIA torture report. As we‘ve been discussing for months, back in April the Senate Intelligence Committee agreed to declassify the 480-page executive summary of the 6,300-page report (which cost $40 million to put together). As we‘d noted, the CIA and White House first offered up redactions that made the whole thing „incomprehensible“ according to some in the Senate.